1 July 2008, 4:13 am
The feeding frenzy began when an Arlington Heights resident casually marked off a piece of parkway ground with stakes and ropes three days before last year's 4th of July parade.... read more
30 June 2008, 9:42 pm
Arlington Heights residents have been asked not to lay claim to prime parade-watching ground dearlier than 7 p.m. Thursday. The suburb follows a route blazed by Evanston in taking a tougher stand on the practice of declaring "dibs."... read more
30 June 2008, 3:42 pm
Gov. Rod Blagojevich has signed an early childhood learning bill that will continue funding preschools across Illinois.... read more
30 June 2008, 6:42 am
CHICAGO (AP) -- Mayor Richard Daley and gun control advocates have lined up predicting more innocent lives lost if the city's handgun ban is overturned, but David Sigale isn't buying it.... read more
29 June 2008, 10:58 pm
Preparing for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 300 Illinois Marine reservists found themselves in Kuwait poised for combat but without tools to maintain their vehicles.... read more
27 June 2008, 6:30 am
Following Thursday's 5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual civil right to keep and bear arms, and that a municipal gun ban violates that right, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Illinois State R... read more